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Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *kēče (“night, evening”), borrowed from Turkish gece (“night”) below.
Pronunciation
Adverb
gece
- at night
Adjective
gece
- nocturnal
Noun
gece
- night
Declension
References
Salar
Etymology
Cognate with Azerbaijani gecə, Gagauz gecä, Turkish gece, Turkmen gīje. From Proto-Turkic *kēče.
Pronunciation
- (Hualong, Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Xinjiang) IPA(key): /keʝe/, /keʝi/
Noun
gece
- yesterday
- evening, night
- Synonyms: geşligi, gecesi
Usage notes
(times of day) güntüs (“daytime”); tañ (“dawn”), er (“morning”), goşluq (“forenoon”), öyle (“noon”), öyleden soña (“afternoon”), şam/diger (“dusk”), geş (“evening”), gece/dün (“night”), yarım gece (“midnight”) (Category: slr:Times of day)
Derived terms
References
- Potanin, G.N. (1893) “кедже кельджи”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 433
- Kakuk, S. (1962). “Un Vocabulaire Salar.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 14, no. 2: 173–96.
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “gece”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 331, 378, 381
- Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “gece”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 94
- 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “gedʒe”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 119
- 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “geji, gejisi, geshliği”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages - Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 262
- Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “geje, gejiği, gejilüx, gejisi”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 114
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish كیجه, گیجه (gece, “night, evening”), from Old Anatolian Turkish كیجه (gejä, “night”), from Proto-Turkic *kēče (“night, evening”). Cognate to geç (“late”) and gecikmek (“to be late”). Compare Turkic cognates such as Old Turkic 𐰛𐰃𐰲𐰀 (kéče, “evening, late in the evening”), Karakhanid (kéčē, “night, at night”), Turkmen gije (“night”), Yakut киэһэ (kiehe, “evening”), and Hungarian késik (“to be late”) a Turkic borrowing from the same root. Unrelated to geç- (“to pass”) which has a short /e/.
Pronunciation
Noun
gece (definite accusative geceyi, plural geceler)
- night
Declension
Antonyms
Adverb
gece
- at night, in the night, by night
- nocturnally
Adjective
gece (incomparable)
- nocturnal
Further reading
- gece in Reverso (Turkish-English)